Silicon Valley Secret Subculture RevealedSilicon Valley has many strengths, but a classic complaint is that the region has no artistic culture. People moan that it lacks the funky, artsy vibe for which San Francisco is famous. Given that innovation...

Apr 15 2014, 7:03am CDT

HBO Silicon Valley Premiere ReviewIf you caught Mike Judge’s new show on HBO last night, you ought to know what it’s called. Characters made at least five references to Silicon Valley, as the show is named, throughout the half hour. In a...

Inside Sequoia CapitalWhen Doug Leone arrived in Mount Vernon, N.Y. in 1968, the 11-year-old Italian immigrant didn’t have a clue. He flunked a math quiz in school because the terms “true” and “false” bewildered him. He wore unsightly slacks...

Mar 26 2014, 8:55am CDT

Jesse Jackson to take on tech's lack of diversitySAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to lead a delegation to the Hewlett Packard annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday to bring attention to Silicon Valley's poor record of including blacks and Latinos in...

Mar 18 2014, 4:55pm CDT

Silicon Valley boom eludes many, drives income gapSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Arwin Buditom guards some of the most successful high-tech firms in America. Joseph Farfan keeps their heat, air and electric systems humming. But these workers and tens of thousands like them...

Mar 6 2014, 12:46am CST

Former NAACP president moves to venture capitalSAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Just months after stepping down as head of the nation's largest civil rights organization, former NAACP President Benjamin Jealous is changing his career from an East Coast political activist to...

French leader heads to Silicon Valley to talk techSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — France's president was visiting San Francisco on Wednesday and meeting with Silicon Valley technology leaders, just days after a French regulator hit Google with an embarrassing regulatory slap and...

Feb 12 2014, 3:38pm CST

Can London's Tech City Measure Up To Silicon Valley?U.K. venture capital may be heading toward a comeback, judging from several new funds and entrepreneurial action in tech hubs. East London is becoming one of the world’s great technology centers, a so-called...

Open Source Storage (Re)launchesBack in 2001 the idea of an open source solution that could compete with proprietary storage products was pretty unusual. But this was the idea that founder Eren Niazi was hoping to commercialize. And he got pretty...

Silicon Valley Taking A Smaller Slice Of The VC PieOther tech hubs are receiving a higher percentage of global venture capital investment, according to new data.
Each year new tech hubs around the world attract more and more media attention, but are they also attracting...

Jan 13 2014, 7:31am CST

The Best Coffee Shops of Silicon ValleyTo know an innovation ecosystem, drink coffee. That’s my secret weapon.
People often ask me how to understand an ecosystem. It’s easy. Whenever my work takes me to a new city or country, I visit its coffee shops. ...

How Innovative Companies CollaborateFor highly innovative group collaborations, do what the big tech firms do: Cycle through collaborations with different pairs and take the long view.
By Jason P. Davis, INSEAD Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and...

2013: The Year Of The Latino Entrepreneur@giorodriguez: A look back on the year, from the perspective of someone on the “Latino tech beat”
We’re getting to the final hours of 2013, and — no surprise to me — I am looking backward, not forward as I hope to do...

HP Garage Opens for VisitorsSilicon Valley gets a new geeky tourist attraction. It is the garage in which David Packard and William Hewlett launched Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 1939.
Garages in Silicon Valley are the romantic birth places of start-...

Dec 7 2005, 8:28am EST

Silicon Valley is back?
Image Source: Silicon Maps
Tony Perkins the Redherring founder, posted on his new High Profile Blog AlwaysOn that the Silicon Valley is back.
In The story Perkins talks about the cleansing of the system, meaning...